Wednesday, October 03, 2012

"This Is A Democratic School"

A Philadelphia high school teacher is under investigation after she
reportedly ordered a student to take off a t-shirt supporting Mitt
Romney’s presidential campaign and compared the shirt to a Ku Klux Klan
sheet.

The incident occurred at Charles Carroll High Schoolin Port Richmond. When the student refused the order, she tried to throw the girl out of class.

The teacher reportedly told the 16-year-old student that the high
school was a “Democratic school” and then threatened to use a marker to
cross out Romney’s name...

(District spokesman) Gallard said the student was well within her rights to wear the t-shirt and was not in violation of any school dress codes.

In the meantime, the teacher was switched out of the class “to allow the student to feel comfortable to come to the class.”

Gallard said the student was within her rights.

“She was expressing her freedom of speech, and was not in violation of any school or district policy,” he told the newspaper.